Learn more:
More information: via Migrating Memoryscapes website and Linktree
LEARN MORE: PROJECTS —> MIGRATING MEMORYSCAPES
EN: Migrating Memoryscapes facilitates dialogue between migrant and non-migrant communities in Poland.
UA: Migrating Memoryscapes сприяє діалогу між громадами мігрантів і немігрантів у Польщі
PL: Migrating Memoryscapes ułatwia dialog między społecznościami migrantów i nie-migrantów w Polsce
LINKS
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SIGN - UP FORM FOR WORKSHOPS - 14 JUNE + 15 JUNE
FB EVENT - 14 JUNE 12.00-14.30 at VOICE Amplified at Stradomska 15
RB EVENT - JUNE 15 18.00-20.30 at Muzeum Krakowa, Pałac Krzysztofory, Rynek 35
LINK VIA ASP WARSAW WEBSITE
FACEBOOK EVENT LINK
INSTAGRAM PAGE
This course is executed thanks to support from the ASP Warsaw Erasmus Department and initiated by Joanna Pottle through her fellowships with the Kosciuszko Foundation and Humanity in Action (2022-2023).
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// Curators and Course Teachers // Katie Zazenski and Joanna Pottle
// Exhibiting Artists and Projects //
Susanna Bagdzińska Mierzejewska, Cristina Dinu – “03-06/02-06”
Adam Baník, Anastasiia Kovalyova, Lívia Vereščáková – “Building the city”
Carmen Dinu, Margot Belin, María Calvo, Rocío Cruz – “Linked”
Maria Martinuz – Untitled
Johanna Rost –”Dokumentation 1102-2206, Eine Kollektion an mehr oder weniger”
Volha Stsiapanava, Uladzislau Siarheyeu – “What do you feel?”
SUPER VIVAZ (Johannes Breuninger and Lina Baltruweit) – “upholding memories”
Vernissage: Friday, 28 April, 18:00-20:00
On View: Monday, 8 May - Friday 12 May
Finnasage: Friday, 12 May, 18:00-20:00
13 April 2023
Interview with Art Dubai curator Vipash Purichanont
As the front-running international art fair in the Middle East, Art Dubai 2023 provides a global perspective that thoughtfully challenges and moves outside of the mainstream Western perspective and approach. It successfully implements this strategy by not only showcasing art from MENASA countries (the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, the Philippines, and the UAE, but also by challenging our collective perceptions of what art forms receive the most attention and are deemed the most innovative in contemporary art today. Within Art Dubai’s section entitled ‘Bawwaba: Against Disappearance’, it seeks to elevate highly skilled areas of craftsmanship and artistry that are not usually included under the category of 21st century art forms (and oftentimes were erased, minimised, or appropriated during colonisation) as the digitalization of the art world evolves. I had the opportunity to discuss this fascinating section of Art Dubai with curator Vipash Purichanont as well as learn more about his work, approach, and process: Go to article
11 April 2023
Review: Artist Residencies and Opportunities for Ukrainians in Culture
As we continue to move into the second year of the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine, we are committed to continuing to find and share opportunities for Ukrainians working in art and culture, in Poland and also beyond. Please read below for a few ongoing programs such as artist residencies and similar opportunities for those in the cultural sector such as researchers, writers, and translators as well as organizations and platforms to add to your list to follow for future opportunities: Go to article
M E M O R Y S C A P E S // PROJECT UPDATE
VISUALS - Joanna Pottle
SOUND - Jeremy Wexler
Special thanks to the Kosciuszko Foundation, Humanity in Action, and Fulbright Poland
See preview below | View via project page | View via youtube
Sfera 223 | Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Solvay - Concert + Screening
Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie
Krzysztof Penderecki Academy aof Music in Krakow - AMKP
Katedra Kompozycji / Composition Faculty
Studio Muzyki Elektroakustycznej
Studio of Electroacoustic Music - SME
Polskie Stowarzyszenie Muzyki Elektroakustycznej / Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music - PSeME
13.02.2023, 19.00
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Solvay, Zakopiańska 62, Kraków
SME50 - 50-lecie Studia Muzyki Elektroakustycznej AMKP
SFERA 223
program
Józef Rychlik - Musinelle
Piotr Madej - Spherical Objects nr 1
Carlos A. Gonzales - La Noche
Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski - WHAMMY
Memoryscapes -
Joanna Pottle, visuals; Jeremy Wexler, audio
GrupLab - Plejrek 351
Maciej Bieniawski, Marek Chołoniewski, Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski, Michał Jandura, Piotr Madej
Recent publications with Contemporary Lynx Art Magazine | January - February 2023
Miró, from the series Workspace, 2022, oil / canvas, 180 × 170 cm, courtesy B. Stankiewicz
“Travelling Images”, Małgorzata Mirga Tas, ICC, photo by Paweł Mazur
‘A Very Difficult Room to Visit’ | Exhibition at FestivALT in Kraków, Poland | December 2022
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 19:00
FestivALT: ul. Józefińska 9, 30-52 Krakow, Poland
Exhibiting Artists
Gabriel Bielawski - Visual Artist, Sculpture
Hannah Naify - Visual Artist, Painting and Photography
Joanna Pottle - Visual Artist, Painting
Mira Rosenthal - Poet, Live Readings
Jeremy Wexler - Composer, Sound
The HERstory of Art Museum invites you to the doubleopening of the herstory of art festival RITUALS OF WATER!
Curated by Marta Grabowska // Dates: 3-17 September 2022
Opening: Saturday 3/09/2022
6pm at KIOSK at Rynek Podgórski 8
8pm at KMWTW at Zwierzyniecka 4/20
On the first weekend of September, join us at KMWTW and KIOSK for a double exhibition opening, during which water will carry us to different sides of the discourse about its being through the herstorical RITUALS OF WATER.
Astrida Neimanis, in her seminal essay titled "Hydrofeminism, or becoming a body of water," identifies water as a planetary archive. Did you know that since the beginning of our Earth’s existence, water has neither increased nor decreased in volume? The glass of water you drink today contains stories of dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, celebrations, and wars: everything that was and is, and will be!
Water, our guide and mode of connection, will carry us through various rituals associated with menstruation, birth and motherhood, the passing of time from a planetary point of view, and the perspective of the individual. Fighting the patriarchy, queering our spaces, interspecies equality, taming our traumas, and confronting climate depression are just some of the topics we will cover. It will be ecosexual, feminist, herstorical and experimental!
Artists and artivists:
～ Alicja Kajtanowska ～ Ania Chromik～ Astra Papachristodoulou ～ Agata Polak ～Aleksandra Pieńkosz ～ Boyana Aleksova ～ Barbara Mihalyi ～ cyber nimfy (Ewelina Jarosz & Justyna Górowska) ～ Fidelia Schlegl ～Grupa Łono (Marcelina Amelia & Marta Borkowska) ～Julka Walkowiak ～Joanna Pottle ～Joanna Tochman ～ Katarzyna Olma ～ Kinga Świętek ～ Monika Dorniak ～ Malw Miel ～ Miroslava Vecerova ～ Magda Worłowska ～ Mo Tomaszewska ～ Olga Pawłowska ～ Somnium Soft-Core project + Marta Niedbał i Jan Jurczak ～ Śomi Śniegocka ～
In addition to the double exhibition, you are invited to attend a number of watery events and meetings:
Mon 5/09/22 6pm Online lecture in Polish: "Liquid motherhood: amniotic fluid, hypersea and hydrofeminism" by Ania Chromik, in PL
Wed 7/09/22 6pm Online meditation: Marta Grabowska, art meditation of "What Water Gave Me" by Frida Kahlo, in ENG
Sat 10/09/22 6pm at Kino Paradox: "We are Bodies of Water", or screening of hydro-artivist films + conversation with artivists, including:
～ Julka Walkowiak ～ Monika Tomaszewska and Magda Worlowska ～ Marta Grabowska.
～ Ania Chromik ～ Alicja Kajtanowska ～ Ewelina Jarosz ～ Justyna Górowska
～ Julka Walkowiak ～ Mo Tomaszewska ～ Magda Worłowska ～ Marta Grabowska ～ Marta Niedbał
Discussion in PL , films in PL and ENG
Sun 11/09/22 4pm at KMWTW: Liquid tenderness meditation with Anna Chromik, in PL
Tue 13/09/22 6pm Bonobo: Emily in Krakow: "When I was a fish (or a bird)." Meeting with Krystyna Lenkowska, in PL
Wed 14/09/22 6pm at Spółdzielnia Ogniwo: Zin workshop and meeting with editors of herstory if art zine "Ariadna" - in ENG and PL
Thurs 15/09/22 6pm at KMWTW: Water Dreaming Circle with Śomi, in PL
Sat 17/09/22 4pm at KIOSK: Grupa Łono - performative reading of the essay "Hydrofeminism, or becoming a water body" by Astrida Neimanis, in PL
Artist statement and bio
Born in Richmond, Virginia, US.
Joanna Pottle is a visual artist, researcher, educator, and curator. Her studio practice combines abstract mixed media techniques of painting, printmaking, drawing, and installations and her research includes investigations of public art and space, contemporary art, post-colonial and post-soviet studies, collective memory and shame, (re)negotiation of previously untold or unheard narratives, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cross-cultural understanding, trauma, healing and peace-building, vulnerability, courage, and empathy. She is graduate of James Madison University, holding a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History with an Art Education track.
“I am a visual storyteller. Or perhaps more accurately, a facilitator of truth telling.
Creating new narratives that put to rest familiar, desperately held onto lies, representing existing truths, and engaging in alternative archival processes to preserve past pains and joys.
Communicating truths and imagination, many times both simultaneously.
Somewhere between real life in all its mundane glory and unapologetic imagination is where we find our truest reality.
This in between is where I reside.
I pursue the in between with the objective of creating a space for active listening, meaningful connection, and transformative healing.
….Dreaming is a form of planning. Gloria Steinman”
Joanna Pottle is 1 of 20 fellows selected for Humanity in Action’s Mapping Inequities Fellowship for 2022!
June 1 – 17, 2022
Visualizing Rights and Rites in the Post-Industrial World: An International Inquiry
The US Fellowship program will consist of a two and half week virtual workshop. A group of 20 American and European Fellows and Senior Fellows will embark on a collaborative investigation and interpretation of spatial data within their respective geographies to illuminate pressing social inequities. These investigations will result in projects that will form an accessible digital exhibition for the public.
Each day, Fellows will spend three hours in virtual sessions and two hours engaged in on-the-ground inquiries and practice. The virtual sessions will consist of lectures from international mapping/data practitioners and academics leading this innovative field. The virtual workshops will also include sessions to learn and critique each other’s projects. The on-the-ground inquiries will involve working in the field, moving away from the computer to explore and generate knowledge and design a project. The projects in the field may be undertaken individually or in small groups if location and technology permit. Fellows choose the community or space that they map, as long as they have access to it geographically or digitally. The purpose of the fieldwork is to produce new data or layer existing data to create a new map.
After the conclusion of the 2.5 week Fellowship, participants will be expected to expand upon their maps and/or share and use their maps in social justice contexts over the next year. Fellows will also be expected to join the Action Lab Series, which convenes monthly from September 2022-February 2023
FB EVENT LINK (po angelsku i po polsku) // EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION
The Exhibition encompasses multiple dimensions of meaning including the use of semantics and language within Joanna’s studio practice, existing as an integrated, yet external perspective, while reflecting her time residing in Poland since Fall of 2019, including throughout the pandemic, and how it has informed her artistic research.
Key themes which have evolved in her work can be comprised within the topic of cultural heritage and how heritage is always constructed, interpreting the present from the past. These ideas include the abstracted visualization of shifting borders, past and present geopolitical contexts, mapping of physical, cultural, and memory-scapes, tangible and intangible heritage, identity and belonging, (re)negotiation of previously untold, unheard, or dissonant narratives, and the individual vs the collective.
In many of her works, she creates what she calls “a new visual language” or “visual alphabet” in which she takes influences of Polish language, physical and cultural landscape, and collective memory with elements of the human form and depicts them through an autobiographical lens. Much of her compositions focus on a moment of intersection and in between, residing in a space of textured ambiguity, vibrant colors, swirling shapes, contoured lines, and layered lived experiences.
This exhibition highlights work completed during Joanna’s grant with the US-Polish Fulbright Commission from 2019-2020, resumed and completed in the Fall of 2021 as well as some periods in between in which her artistic research informed her grant renewal work in 2021.
'What’s between the forgotten and remembered' / „Pomiędzy zapamiętanym a zapomnianym”
The exhibition Opening will take place on 15th of Feb. 2022, 6:00 PM.
The Exhibition will be open between 16th Feb. and 1st of March 2022.
Monday-Friday (10 AM - 3:30 PM), MCSG, Rynek Główny 29, Kraków
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“MEET WITH THE ARTIST” SATURDAYS / 19.02 + 26.02, 13.00-15.00
Visit to the gallery to see and learn more about the current exhibition by Joanna Pottle entitled "What’s between the forgotten and remembered' / „Pomiędzy zapamiętanym a zapomnianym” Joanna will be present at the gallery to meet with visitors and share more about the exhibition, her work and studio practice.
Appointments for alternative times from the gallery's open hours (such as on Saturdays or Sundays) and/or to request a visit with the artist present, either during the week or on weekends, can be made via email at joannawpottle@gmail.com, but should be made with at least 24-48 hours notice.
📣 "Meet with the Artist” / exhibition visiting hours with Joanna Pottle
🗓When? Saturdays, 19.02 and 26.02 / 13.00-15.00
❓Appointments? Email joannawpottle@gmail.com / Minimum 24-48 hours notice.
ABSTRACT DIALOGUES: In Conversation with Joanna Pottle + Julia Leś and Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki // Monday, 24 January 2022, at 8:30pm (20:30)
GO TO FB EVENT // Artist Talk Event in collaboration with Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki at Stakkato Art Space | Ślusarska 9a, 30-710 Kraków
Come join us for a joint event to hear from US artist Joanna Pottle and Polish artist Julia Leś about their work and studio practice as part of a conclusive event of their exhibition at Stakkato Art Space as well as learn more about local women-led Kraków art initiative Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki and their upcoming Ariadna Zine, the January issue on Abstract Art.
The event will include individual artist talks provided by Joanna and Julia, and Q&A facilitated by the Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki’s curator Marta Grabowska. During the event, you will also learn more about the Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki initiative and learn the details of the magical and esoteric launch of the January issue of Ariadna Zine, packed with Abstract Art, from one of its founders Aśka Warchał- Beneschi.
Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki is an initiative aiming to establish the first public institution in Poland championing women’s history and art; the museum will serve as a contemporary open salon, a meeting place with a conciliatory approach.
This is the concluding event for the “In between landscapes / Pomiędzy krajobrazami” exhibition at Stakkato Art Space so check it out before its too late!
9th Exhibition of SMTG Members in Krakow
Graphic artists and graphic designers, members of the International Print Triennial Association in Krakow, after a year of break, we are honored to invite you again to our annual SMTG Members' Exhibition in Krakow! Showcasing 49 artists, the exhibition opening will take place on 14.01.21 at 18.00 (6pm) MCSG, Rynek Główny 29 p. II, Kraków and it is on view from 17.01 to 1.02.2022, from Mon-Fri 10:00 - 15:30 (10-3:30pm).
ILLUSION FIELDS / UFO Gallery, Krakowska 13, Kraków, Poland
/21.12.2021-15.01.2022/
GROUP EXHIBITION
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ARTISTS:
Tomek Baran, Grzegorz Bugaj, Kinga Burek, Marcin Dymek, Radim Koros, Piotr Kolanko, Krzysztof Marchlak, Joanna Pottle, Grzegorz Siembida, Małgorzata Wielek
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Photo by Radim Koros
Exhibition Opening: “In between landscapes / Pomiędzy krajobrazami” / Sunday, 12 December, 2021 at 18.00 (6pm)
Join us this weekend Stakkato Art Space at my upcoming exhibition opening along featuring American artist Joanna Pottle and Polish artist Julia Leś. Exhibition Opening: Sunday 12th of December 2021, 18.00 (6pm) / On view for 1 month
Stakkato Art Space / Ślusarska 9a, 30-710 Kraków / Go to Facebook event link
Exhibition Description:
The exhibition entitled “In between landscapes / Pomiędzy krajobrazami” presents paintings that consider the meaning and interpretations of physical and cultural landscapes through large scale, abstract compositions.
Through a transnational lens and collaboration, these two artists explore questions as to our human relationship with nature, the intangible and tangible intertwined together through painting.
The artists will also give us a further glimpse into their artistic and research processes by also showing some fragments of their sketchbooks. Join us for the exhibition opening to learn more and see their beautiful work!
Upcoming Artist Talks and Interviews!
Thursday 2 December, 2021 LIVE Q&A via Instagram @8pm BST (9pm CET / 3pm ET) with ArtBLAB London
Link to Facebook event | ArtBLAB website
Wednesday 15 December, 2021 @ 5pm CET (11am ET) with The Red Zenith Collective LIVE via Instagram
Nówka Sztuka Art Fair in Kraków-- Online Gallery, Joanna Pottle
13–14.11.2021, godz. 11.00–18.00
/galeria online 13–30.11.2021 /
17th International Mark Rothko Painting Symposium at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia.
From 4-18 September 2021, Joanna participated as one of nine residents in the 17th International Mark Rothko Painting Symposium at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia. The symposium included public artist talks, studio visits with representatives of the US Embassy in Riga, acceptance of work to the Mark Rothko Art Centre permanent collection, and a closing exhibition of the Mark Rothko 2021 symposium, opened on 17 September, on view for a month and available to the public between 16.00 and 19.00.
Learn more: https://www.rothkocenter.com/en/daugavpili-sacies-17-starptautiskais-glezniecibas-simpozijs-marks-rotko-2021
The Solidarity Project //24 July 2021: ARTISTIC HYBRIDITY: redefining digital and physical creative spaces with Katie Zazenski + Radim Koros
View session recording here via the Solidarity Project Youtube Channel here.
The Solidarity Project is in conversation with American-born, Warsaw based artist Katie Zazenski + Czech-born, Krakow based artist Radim Koros, moderated by artistic director Joanna Pottle. These artists will discuss their multi-media and digitally integrated studio practices and how they address and question the relationship of the virtual with the physical. Join us as we delve into considering how art questions our collective and individual sense of time, connectivity, imagination, space, and reality with Q&A and discussion.
Instagram | Youtube Channel | Subscribe to Email Updates | Contact Us: solidarity2020project@gmail.com
A US Embassy in Poland grant project // A virtual artistic cross-cultural exchange between American and Polish artists.
Virtual Exhibition World of Co Artist Residency //
FACES IN SPACES / video installation project
Joanna Pottle Artist Talk – Sunday (June 6th) 14:00 UTC via Instagram @worldofcoresidency
Exhibition Preview Below
